Vaccine Manufacturer’s Documents Show HPV Vaccines May Induce
Seizures and HPV
Vaccines: My Journey Through Gardasil Injuries
SEPTEMBER 25, 2013
By Elizabeth Wagner, Minnesota
GARDASIL CHANGED MY LIFE.
I thought an ounce of prevention was worth a pound of cure.
Little did I realize how my simple decision to add Gardasil to my cancer
prevention strategy would result in so many new health conditions. Sometimes,
I wish it were possible to get unvaccinated.
Prior to Gardasil, I was an extremely healthy and active 26
year old woman. I was always involved in sports and worked out five times per
week. I was enjoying a successful career and on my way up the corporate
ladder. I hadn’t been to a doctor for a single thing in over 5
years. I had maintained a record of clean health for nearly my entire
life. At the time, I was engaged to be married and I had my whole life
to look forward to.
Much like many well-meaning, concerned parents, my mother thought
it would be a good idea to get the HPV vaccine in order to avoid the
possibility of getting cervical cancer someday. My doctor did not see
the point being I had not yet been sexually active and my soon-to-be-husband
had no sexually transmitted diseases. Even though it did not make much
sense to me or my doctor, we went ahead with the first shot of the vaccine
series.
I received the first Gardasil shot in May 2008. Several
days after that first injection, I returned to my doctor complaining of hand
and joint pain, headaches and nausea. My doctor did not mention it
could be the vaccine causing the pain and sent me to a specialist. The
specialist could find nothing wrong with me.
Months went on and I kept feeling intensely worn down,
fatigued, had horrible headaches and just didn’t feel like myself. I
received the second shot and again, I felt very flu-like. The pain
radiating throughout my body felt like burning knives stabbing me in every
muscle. The pain was like nothing I had ever felt in my life. Beyond
just the pain, I started to develop a “foggy” feeling in my head.
Everything seemed confusing. I had a hard time, putting words together
and getting my thoughts out.
My immune system was clearly compromised. I also
developed several food sensitivities including gluten, dairy, eggs, soy and
shrimp. Soon after the vaccine, my menstrual cycles became very
irregular, I developed endometriosis and an ovarian cyst. Things kept
getting worse. I continued to return to my doctor trying to find out what
was wrong with me.
How did I go from a vibrant young woman full of life to a
woman who felt trapped in a body that was quickly deteriorating?
Eventually, I was put on disability. I was so ill, I did
not attend any social events or Thanksgiving and Christmas of 2008. I
was unable to function.
The doctors were running out of explanations and ultimately
came to the conclusion that all of my issues were “depression”. They
prescribed me many anti-depressants, antibiotics, muscle relaxers and
anti-anxiety meds. Of which, I never took. During my disability I
sought help at Mayo clinic.
While there, I had about 50 appointments with various doctors
doing tests, scans and biopsies trying to unwrap what was slowly eating away
at my life. The final decision made there was again that I was
“depressed” and all of my health ailments were caused by this. I was
beginning to lose hope. I knew without a doubt that all of my issues
were not in my head.
After seeing about a dozen different doctors including chiropractors,
naturopathic doctors and specialists, one doctor finally took the time to sit
down and look at my medical records to see if we could piece everything
together.
By actually printing out everything and laying it down in
front of us, it was clear as day that all of my health ailments started
exactly when I received the HPV vaccine. Doing some quick research of
my own, I also discovered that the HPV vaccine is well known and documented
for being one of the most devastating vaccines made to date. It has
caused nearly 30,000 adverse reactions to women even much younger than I.
Many of them have spent years without recovering.
During my journey to re-discover my health, I have changed
many things in my life which I believe have helped make me more whole and
will aid in my final healing process. I now eat all mainly organic
whole foods, I regularly see a chiropractor, I take probiotics daily, I only
take whole organic supplements and finally, I am now seeing a doctor who
specializes in vaccine injury using homeopathy. More specifically,
CEASE therapy.
Thankfully, I am beyond blessed with an amazingly supportive
husband in my corner. I also am surrounded with an extremely
encouraging church-family and biological family who have been there for me
through so much. I never imagined that in one moment, in one injection,
in one foolish decision, my life would change forever.
I now have a son of my own and he will not be
vaccinated. The risks of possible auto-immune issues, allergies, asthma
and general irreversible damage are too serious and tragic for me to force
onto my son. Do your research on every single vaccine before you make
an irreversible decision for your children.
The issue is not new; so let’s do some review.
The FDA and its maker insist it's safe.
But CBS News investigative
correspondent Sharyl Attkisson has
exclusive information on some very serious side effects.
Amid
questions about the safety of the HPV vaccine Gardasil one of the lead researchers
for the Merck drug is speaking out about its risks, benefits and aggressive
marketing.
Dr. Diane Harper says young girls and their parents should receive more complete warnings before receiving the vaccine to prevent cervical cancer. Dr. Harper helped design and carry out the Phase II and Phase III safety and effectiveness studies to get Gardasil approved, and authored many of the published, scholarly papers about it. She has been a paid speaker and consultant to Merck. It's highly unusual for a researcher to publicly criticize a medicine or vaccine she helped get approved. Dr. Harper joins a number of consumer watchdogs, vaccine safety advocates, and parents who question the vaccine's risk-versus-benefit profile.
She
says data available for Gardasil shows that it lasts five years; there is no
data showing that it remains effective beyond five years…
Worse
yet is that a disturbing number of girls and young women who received
Gardasil have died or suffered serious adverse effects such as
paralysis, seizures and blindness since the Food and Drug Administration
(FDA) fast tracked its approval under pressure from the pharmaceutical giant
(Merck) that makes it. Just this week Judicial Watch released the
latest of many daunting federal reports exposing the deaths of 26 girls who
received the shot in the last year alone.
Before
that Judicial Watch uncovered droves of FDA records, obtained by suing the
agency, that document the damage associated with Gardasil which is promoted
as a miracle shot that can prevent certain strains of cervical cancer caused
by Human Papillomavirus (HPV). In 2008 JW also published a special report detailing Gardasil’s approval
process, side effects, safety concerns and marketing practices. Undoubtedly,
it illustrates a large-scale public health experiment.
Yet,
incredibly, at least 20 states have passed laws requiring funding
for Gardasil or education programs promoting the vaccine. Among states
that have enacted Gardasil-related measures are Colorado, Indiana, Iowa,
Maine, Michigan, Nevada, Rhode Island and Utah. In all 50 states, tax dollars
help pay for the shots because the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) makes
them available through the federal Vaccines for Children program.
But
California has broken away from the pack in a big way by making Gardasil,
which is administered to girls as young as 9, available without permission
from a parent. Signed by Governor Jerry Brown this month, the new measure (Minors: Medical Care: Consent Bill) will
take effect in January. That means anyone 12 years of age or older can
consent to medical care related to the prevention of a sexually transmitted
disease, according to the actual language of the law.
This
includes the strains of cervical cancer, communicated only by sexual contact,
that Gardasil’s manufacturer claims to prevent. The new law was clearly
crafted for this one drug and a chunk of it is dedicated to touting it
because “HPV vaccination prior to the onset of sexual activity is critical
since most infections occur within a short time frame post initiation.”
Of
interesting note is that the key California legislators who passed the
Gardasil law received campaign money from Merck, according to a
Sacramento-based investigative journalism group that published a database with the names and numbers. All of
the lawmakers are Democrats who each got between $300 and $3,500 from the
huge pharmaceutical conglomerate….
Unlike
babies, you just can't hold teens or adults down and vaccinate them. As a
result, vaccinations for many preventable illnesses remain stubbornly low,
despite a massive effort by drug makers and public-health officials to
educate the community.
For
example, Merck and GlaxoSmithKline have fought an uphill, politically charged
battle to persuade the parents of teenage girls and boys to get them
vaccinated against human papillomavirus (HPV), which is the most common
sexually transmitted infection and is associated with several types of
cancer, especially cervical.
THE FOLLOWING FROM PHARMA SOURCE!
“While
progress is being made in getting more boys vaccinated—CDC data published in
July show that 21% received Merck's Gardasil in 2012, up from 7% in 2011—the
rate among girls is leveling off. “We're dropping the ball,” the CDC's
director, Thomas Frieden, MD, said in July. As to possible reasons why, data
from a survey of parents, which appeared in Pediatrics in 2011, indicated
that over half of US girls ages 13 to 17 had not gotten even one dose of HPV
vaccine due to poor awareness (19.4%) and the failure of doctors to recommend vaccination (13.1%).
These
conversations parents are expected to have with their teens can be
uncomfortable, and a strong doctor recommendation could help, says Krista
Geller, MD, a pediatrician and VP, medical director at IPG's ICC Lowe. “The
physician-caregiver dialogue regarding the rationale and importance of HPV
vaccination is a platform for pediatricians to model a responsible approach
to difficult conversations.”
Still,
“people view Merck's Gardasil as an innovative product, and it's back on a
growth trajectory,” Bernstein Research analyst Tim Anderson, MD, tells
MM&M. “The challenges have been political issues, and then compliance in
terms of getting all three shots. A lot of that is in the rearview mirror,
though.”
Gardasil,
he wrote in a July investor note, benefits from uptake in males in the US but
“Japan's recent decision to suspend
recommending immunization of girls with Gardasil will have a clear, negative
impact in 2013 (Gardasil sales in [Japan] were $140M in 2012).”
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Tuesday, October 1, 2013
Vaccine Manufacturer’s Documents Show HPV Vaccines May Induce Seizures and HPV Vaccines: My Journey Through Gardasil Injuries : Elizabeth Wagner
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